THATS SO 80s - Steve Harrington

Chapter Thirty-Eight

Chapter Thirty-Eight

We had been driving for half an hour and my focus was dead set on this Robux cube. I don't care how long it takes, I'm going to defeat it. We drive along, rounding a gentle curve in a forest road.

"Guys!" I scared the other guys as it had been silent for way too long. I showed them my Robux cube. "I got the white side, baby."

The other sighed and some groaned. "Juno, don't scare us like that!" Lucas hisses and I smiled.

"Sorry." I slumped down in my seat and continued to work on it.

We eventually arrived at the trailer park, and Steve parked outside Max's trailer. "This better be fast, Mayfield," Steve tells her as she was already out the door.

"Twenty seconds," Max responded and walked to her house, before entering.

Steve eyes the walkie-talkie in Dustin's arms. "That's got batteries in it, right?"

Dustin gives him a disappointed look. "I'm not even going to answer that question." It went silent for two seconds. "Yes, it has batteries."

"Yeah, I got it." Steve rolled his eyes before turning to me. "Hey, can I try—"

"No." I respond, fixated. He sighed before looking out the window. It had been a minute before Max walked quickly back to the car. "That was a minute and thirty seconds, Max."

"Yeah, that was longer than twenty seconds." Steve agreed as they stood outside the car but I decided to stay in. "Hey, whoa, whoa. You all right?"

She swiftly made her way into the car. "I'm fine. Just drive."

The rest got in. "Did something happen?" Dustin asked as Max looked quite shaken up.

"Can we please just go?" Max begged, and Steve drives off, going to our next location which Max had requested for.

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Steve drives us down a one-lane road, the whole car ride was airly quiet except for the clicking noises of my cube. I'm sure it was driving them insane, but I didn't care.

"Turn here." Max requested.

"Here?" Dustin asked, looking over at her. She nods and Steve turns into a graveyard, and I recognise it instantly. Not only is it the graveyard they had for Billy, but it was the graveyard they had for my Dad, too.

Steve comes to a stop under the shade of a large tree. Max climbed out and walks toward Billy's grave. "Max?" Lucas had jumped out of the car.

"Lucas, just please, wait in the car." Max tells him. I zoned out of their conversation and turned to Steve.

"Um... Is it alright if I visit... Um... Dad?" I asked him quietly, he frowned sadly at me. "I'll be like two minutes, I just need to see him. He needs to know he's not be abandoned."

"Yeah, of course. Did you want me to come with you?" Steve asked quietly.

"No, I... I need to do this alone." I told him before exiting his car and walking towards where we had buried Dad. My heart pounded as I neared his grave and I kneeled down in front of it. "Hi, Dad."

I stared at the grave head, I still couldn't believe he was gone. It was easier in Cali because I just pretended that he was on holiday for a while but being here made it feel even more real now. "How are you?" I asked, fiddling with my fingers. "Great, yeah, that's great. Um... I suck at talking, you know that. You literally had to give me speech therapy when I was like, 7."

"Anyways, I thought you should know that there's something going on in Hawkins. Bigger. Scarier. And we could really use your help right now." I sighed sadly. "It's a curse, we're saying. People are dying. Max... I think she might the next victim. I shouldn't think like that, but this is the reality of it. I just wanted to come by and say hi, and tell you that I love and miss you, oh, and so does El. We don't really speak much about you but honestly, it's just easier to say that you went on a vacation for a really long time."